Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Postscript's Data Platform team as a Senior Backend Engineer and help build and scale the foundational services, APIs, and pipelines that power our product. You will blend strong backend engineering skills with a deep understanding of data-intensive systems. Collaborate with engineers and product teams to help e-commerce marketers maximize revenue. This role involves designing, developing, maintaining, and scaling services and APIs, building data pipelines, acting as a tech lead, maintaining integrations, and contributing to team planning. Postscript offers a competitive salary, significant equity, remote work, flexible PTO, and comprehensive benefits. We are a high-growth startup with opportunities for career advancement.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience writing and shipping production software in GoLang
• Hands on python experience in production or non-production settings
• Experience building and designing high-scale systems AWS with broad variety of database technologies (RDBMS, OLAP, NoSQL, etc.)
• Working knowledge of event-driven distributed systems, Kafka, distributed data processing technologies (Flink/Spark/etc)
• Proven track record of success in remote startups, particularly in mid to late stage companies
• Strong desire add new technologies to your toolkit
• You thrive in ambiguity and love solving complex problems

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, maintain, and scale the Data Platform team’s services and APIs
• Build batch and streaming data pipelines
• Act as tech lead for individual projects: write design docs, scope tasks, and delegate to other engineers
• Maintain and enhance Postscript’s third-party integrations
• Contribute to team planning and process improvement

Preferred Qualifications

• Terraform or IAC tools
• Building and deploying applications on K8s
• Experience building streaming and/or batch data pipelines and ETL

Benefits

• Salary range of USD $170-200k base plus significant equity (we do not have geo based salaries)
• High growth startup - plenty of room for you to directly impact the company and grow your career!
• Work from home (or wherever)
• Fun - We’re passionate and enjoy what we do
• Competitive compensation and opportunity for equity
• Flexible paid time off
• Health, dental, vision insurance